LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has raised the alarm that some politicians have been buying up Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, and financially inducing unsuspecting voters to harvest their Voter Identification Numbers. The Acting Chairman of INEC and National Commissioner overseeing the FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau states, Mohammed Haruna, raised the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP), in Kano State, on Saturday held a town hall meeting to fine tune strategies towards achieving landslide electoral victory in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The Chairman of the party, Alhaji Muhammad Raji, while addressing party members and support groups, said the meeting was organized by House of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian military on Thursday said although it is facing constant pressure to compromise the 2023 elections, Nigerians can be rest assured that it would remain neutral. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, disclosed this to journalists at the 61st session of the State House Ministerial Briefing organised…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWRANGERS)-National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu has disclaimed reports that he is opposed to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS and the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC Results Viewing Portal IReV for next year’s general election. At a news conference on Thursday in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has kicked against the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to deploy the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS and the INEC Results Viewing Portal IReV, saying Nigeria is not ripe for the use of such technology. This was as the electoral umpire insisted there…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidates of all political parties have signed a peace accord committing themselves to a peaceful campaign for the 2023 election. All the candidates and the national chairman chairmen of their parties signed the accord organised by the National Peace Committee in Abuja on Thursday. Some of the candidates that signed the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two years after Samuel Ashola was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, the unemployed artist boils with anger as he prepares to vote. “My blood is hot,” said the 30-year-old, before campaigning for the 2023 general elections starts later in September. “I’m from the ghetto,…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has pulled out of the Kebbi State governorship race, while Minister Of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige pulled out of the 2023 presidential race to retain his ministerial seat. Recalled that Malami had in April declared interest in the Kebbi…